The Hovgaard Islands are a Canadian Arctic island group in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut Territory. They were named after Andreas Hovgaard, a Polar explorer and officer of the Danish Navy who led an expedition to the Kara Sea on steamship Dijmphna in 1882–83.[1]
The islands lie in the Rasmussen Basin, equal distance between Gjoa Haven, King William Island (20 km (12 mi) to the north), and Pechell Point, Adelaide Peninsula (20 km (12 mi)).[2]
The waters surrounding the islands are known amongst the Netsilik Inuit for an abundance of blubbery marine mammals.
^Hovgaard Ø. In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin Bd. 21, 2010. Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9
^"Information on "Hovgaard Islands"". Natural Resources, Atlas of Canada. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
The HovgaardIslands are a Canadian Arctic island group in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut Territory. They were named after Andreas Hovgaard, a Polar explorer...
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is in the Wilhelm Archipelago, southwest of HovgaardIsland and Booth Island, east of the Vedel Islands and northeast of the French Passage. It is northwest...
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it. In 1882, the Danish Arctic explorer and naval officer Andreas Peter Hovgaard, leader of the Arctic survey Dijmphna expedition, set himself the goal...
consists of numerous islands, the largest of which are Booth Island and HovgaardIsland. The archipelago extends from Bismarck Strait southwest to Lumus...
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shore. It lies to the west of much larger HovgaardIsland and to the south of the Holm Land Peninsula. The island has an area of 230.9 km2 (89.2 sq mi) and...
William Hovgaard (born 1857, Aarhus, Denmark d. 1950, Summit, New Jersey) was a Danish, later American professor of naval design and construction at Massachusetts...
Andreas Peter Hovgaard (1 November 1853 – 15 March 1910) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. Hovgaard became a sub-lieutenant of the Danish...
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north. HovgaardIsland, the closest island of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago lies 10.8 kilometers (6.7 mi) northwest of the NW point of Taymyr Island across...
be continually repaired. The harsh ice conditions continued along HovgaardIsland further north. At Mallemuk Mountain in SE Holm Land the coastal ice...
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as well as numerous coastal islands, such as HovgaardIsland in the shore of the Greenland Sea or Princess Thyra Island in the Wandel Sea. The Greenland...
Danish means "the fjord of seventy-nine") between Lambert Land and HovgaardIsland. The fjord was named by the Denmark expedition in April 1907. The 79°...
expedition after steamer Dijmphna, on which Danish Naval officer Andreas Peter Hovgaard attempted to reach and map the area to the north of the Taymyr Peninsula...
which is 25 m north of HovgaardIsland, 150 m west of Pléneau Island, and 2.33 km south of Lamya Island in the Dannebrog Islands group. British mapping...
reason for purchasing the ship was the idea proposed by Andreas Peter Hovgaard that an undiscovered land mass existed north of the Taymyr Peninsula. The...
offshoot of the Nioghalvfjerdsbrae glacier as it split either side of HovgaardIsland. The main flow of the Nioghalvfjerdsbrae flows eastward out into Nioghalvfjerd...
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